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Until May 2025, Net Zero Logistics’ vans were running 30 to 40 routes daily across Connecticut. Mark Chiusano, the CEO and owner of Net Zero, which focuses on the last mile of deliveries, said he wanted more efficient routes that would lower costs while meeting client needs. Loading audio narration… Net Zero’s own transportation management software couldn’t suggest optimized routes, so Chiusano said they decided to try Finmile, an AI-powered transportation routing software that provides dynamic routing based on location, weather, traffic, service-level agreements, vehicle specs, driver behavior, and available drivers. Now, Net Zero averages 16 to 20 routes daily,…
Digg is back from the dead. Again. Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose’s once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March, as the company shifted course. Originally redesigned as a competitor to the massive community forum site Reddit, the new Digg found that it wasn’t able to effectively manage the bot traffic invading its platform and hadn’t differentiated itself enough from the competition to make an impact. The startup laid off staff and said it was time to go back to the drawing board. Rose, a partner at True Ventures, returned to work full-time on a new version…
As AI companies race to secure power for their data centers, natural gas is having a moment. Loading audio narration… Data centers are growing bigger and more power-intensive. They are being built on tighter timelines than ever before, and the current power infrastructure in the United States is struggling to keep up.”Speed matters,” Vivian Lee, a managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group, told Business Insider. “Bringing a site online even a year earlier can have a meaningful economic impact.”Lee said it typically takes two to three years to build a data center, assuming the local community is on…
There’s another job title for the AI era, and at Box, it’s paying up to $183,000. Loading audio narration… The cloud content management company is hiring an “AI Business Automation Engineer” to integrate AI agents across Box.The role involves working across departments — such as finance, legal, or people — and finding ways to rebuild processes with an “AI-first mindset,” according to Box’s job listing.”This isn’t a side project or something you can just do on nights and weekends,” said Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, in an X post late Sunday. “You need to design and develop robust agents…
The apparently insatiable demand for AI compute has data center entreprenuers looking to the stars. There’s a key problem: There aren’t enough rockets to put data centers in orbit around the Earth, and they’re too expensive. Most of the players are hoping that SpaceX’s Starship — expected to make its twelfth test flight as soon as this weekend— will solve the problem. But once the vehicle is operational it may be years before it is commercially available, given SpaceX’s internal satellite business. The same is true for Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, which failed to deliver a satellite during its…
DETROIT (AP) — Jalen Rose walked through the doors of the high school that bears his name and into the cafeteria, which doubles as a shorter-than-regulation basketball court. He hugged a stream of students as they headed to class and chatted up faculty and staff in the hallways.The former NBA guard and member of Michigan’s Fab Five opened the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy in 2011, four years after retiring from the league. As busy as he is, the 6-foot-8 Rose is a regular in the building and outside when people in the community pull up for free food.“Jalen is here…
The widow of a man killed in a mass shooting last year at Florida State University is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, blaming the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot for contributing to the tragedy.Prosecutors say ChatGPT advised Phoenix Ikner on which location and time of day would allow for the most potential victims; what type of gun and ammunition to use; and whether a gun would be useful at short range.“OpenAI knew this would happen. It’s happened before and it was only a matter of time before it happened again,” Vandana Joshi said in a statement Monday. Her husband Tiru Chabba was…
One of the biggest trials in tech is entering its final stretch. Loading audio narration… Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI has a handful of key witnesses before both sides make their closing arguments, which could come as soon as this week. OpenAI cofounder and former executive Ilya Sutskever, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Altman himself are all expected to testify.BI’s Jacob Shamsian has a fantastic breakdown on the lead-up to the case and what’s at stake. (Jacob also has a fun interview with Altman’s attorney, William Savitt.)At a high level, Musk, an OpenAI cofounder, claims Altman and…
NEW YORK (AP) — At this year’s Tony Awards, sound designer Justin Ellington and performer-producer Kandi Burruss have gotten nominations to theater’s biggest prize. A man who helped both get there is also being highlighted.Freddie Hendricks, a middle school theater teacher at Utopian Academy for the Arts in Ellenwood, Georgia, and who founded the Youth Ensemble of Atlanta, is getting the special Tony Award that honors educators.“It feels really great to know that they’re succeeding on that level and that I had a little to do with it,” he told The Associated Press ahead of the announcement on Monday. “It’s…
Tech entrepreneur Ben Pasternak did not want to be served. Loading audio narration… His trouble wasn’t the room service. There at his suite in the Baccarat Hotel, the “service de chambre” included round-the-clock Cristal and caviar.No, the Forbes “30 Under 30” startup wunderkind was hiding out at the Manhattan hotel in hopes of dodging the hand-delivery of a 41-page lawsuit accusing his crypto venture of fraud.And there at the Baccarat, where suites start at $1,500 or more a night, things were about to go from bad to violent.On March 31, Pasternak, 26, and his influencer girlfriend, Evelyn Ha, 27, had…